Yep, no posting illegal info. If I were going to try to find torrents, I'd google some key words that might be in the filename, along with +torrent. Of course, you'll want to be sure the file isn't illegal before you download it, or you'd be a pirate. But there's plenty of music and software that can be found this way that's totally legit.

is legal. they're very good for british TV torrents, useful for missed shows. when the TV show/series comes out on DVD it instantly gets pulled from the site. making it legal so long as you're british.

i dont see how mentioning BT sites is a rule-breaker here. after all BT itself isnt illegal, what they link to isnt illegal. there was some ruling recently which said that P2P and BT can do whatever they want, similar to the rule about recording TV shows. apparently. i dont know the whole thing but its a kick in the teeth for music studios and the likes!

is legal. they're very good for british TV torrents, useful for missed shows. when the TV show/series comes out on DVD it instantly gets pulled from the site. making it legal so long as you're british.

i dont see how mentioning BT sites is a rule-breaker here. after all BT itself isnt illegal, what they link to isnt illegal. there was some ruling recently which said that P2P and BT can do whatever they want, similar to the rule about recording TV shows. apparently. i dont know the whole thing but its a kick in the teeth for music studios and the likes!

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Quoting the above sites is OK as I said, it's the well known pirate sites that should not be advertised here and will be removed if posted.

Is there a connect button like IRC? is there a server you pick? I am really clueless here. So i open Azureus then what do i do to download a song mp3 or whatever. I just heard of bit torrent today and was curious. Can someone get me started. Thanks

Ok I think I got it. I tried to download a song. I picked a small one about 6MB but it was soooo slow. What is the typical time for something like that. I mean if you want to download something 100MB it would take like 2 days. What are some normal times?

Ok I think I got it. I tried to download a song. I picked a small one about 6MB but it was soooo slow. What is the typical time for something like that. I mean if you want to download something 100MB it would take like 2 days. What are some normal times?

What are the security issues i should be aware of???

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#1 - If you have 1 seeder and hundreds of downloaders, it will go quite slow. However, if you have hundreds of seeders and you are the only downloader, I would expect your connection to be maxed out.
#2 - If you are on a Mac, there should not really be any...

Ok I think I got it. I tried to download a song. I picked a small one about 6MB but it was soooo slow. What is the typical time for something like that. I mean if you want to download something 100MB it would take like 2 days. What are some normal times?

Ok ..am I connecting to someone else's PC or MAC? How is this better than just downloading something through your browser.

I am currently downloading a 800MB techno-lounge music file...i think. I just picked something at random to see how it works. I would cancel it, but i am half way through. looks like i have about 2 more hours.

So apparently there is lots of stuff that can be downloaded. I guess you just make a queue of files and let it run all the time? Is there anything else I should know..thanks

How is this better than just downloading something through your browser?

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I'm not sure what level of detail you're interested in, but there's a good technical paper on how BitTorrent works. Look at the "BitTorrent Economics Paper", linked to on the documentation page. The basic idea is that when a bunch of people are trying to download data from the same site, the server can get overloaded and the result is that none of the downloaders are getting very good transfer rates. BitTorrent does some interesting things (described in the paper) to (re)distribute the downloading effort among all the machines participating in the "torrent". It's pretty clever in my opinion.

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